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No. 889,801. Patented Sept; 18., 1888.

WITNESSES.

' ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARTIN LOUIS FLOWERS, OF NEV ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WALTER ANDERSON TAYLOR AND WILLIAM ROBERT TAYLOR, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

SCRAPER FOR CANE-MILLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,801, dated September 18,1888.

Application filed March 15. 1888. Serial No. 267,220. (No model.)

T or whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, MARTIN LoUIs FLOWERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scrapers for Cane-Mills; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,

to making a part of this specification, and'to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon. This invention has for its object to provide novel means for rigidly or inflexibly holding a scraper in contact with a roller for the purpose of efficiently removing the fine bagasse or other substance adhering thereto. This object I accomplish by the features of construction and combination of devices, hereinafter described and claimed, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal view of a pair of scrapers and attachments for a two-roller canemill. Fig. 2 is an end view of same. Fig. 3 is a cross-section through rollers of a five- 25 roller cane-mill, showing my improved scrapers applied thereto.

At Figs. 1 and 2 the scrapers A are bolted fast to square bars B, and to these bars B are secured the rigid or. inflexible levers 0. Tierods D connect the levers 0 together by means of an interposing turn-buckle, E, screwed on the tie-rods D by a right and left hand thread. When the turn-buckle E is turned to the right, the levers O are drawn together, and as the 3 5 ends of bar B are journals, turning in suitable bearings, as shown at F, Fig. 3, the scrapers are drawn firmly and. tightly up against the roller-surfaces, and rigidly or inflexibly held against the latter.

At Fig. 3 the threeroller mill has but one scraper applied to one lower roller, G. The scrapers are shown at A, the levers at O, the turn-buckle at E, and the tie-rods at D. The tie-rods all have a pivotal engagement with the rigid levers for the proper movements of the parts.

The two-roller mill shows the double scrapers threaded tie-rods D, secured, respectively, to

the levers, and the turn-buckles E, connecting the tie-rods, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

MARTIN LOUIS FLOWERS.

Witnesses:

D. I. DOWERS, OVIDE L. LE BLANC. 

